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What A Day

Trump And Musk's Messy Break-Up

What A Day

Crooked Media

News, Daily News

4.612K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

While President Trump demands his administration investigate the former president's pardons and executive orders, we're left thinking about President Joe Biden again…and where it all went wrong. Alex Thompson, national political correspondent for Axios and co-author of the new book, "Original Sin," joins us to talk about Biden's decline in office and how the people around him covered it up. And in headlines, President Trump and Elon Musk trade attacks on social media over the Big Beautiful Bill, Trump bans citizens of 12 countries from traveling to the US, and a Massachusetts teen detained by ICE is released on bond.

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0:00.0

It's Friday, June 6th.

0:04.1

I'm Jane Koston, and this is What Today?

0:06.1

The show that did see that anti-vaxxer and extremely elderly quarterback Aaron Rogers is joining the Pittsburgh Steelers,

0:12.6

an announcement that came in the midst of a giant internet fight between two other famous people

0:17.4

who spend too much time complaining on podcasts.

0:28.3

Music famous people who spend too much time complaining on podcasts. On today's show, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk trade barbs on social media for hours.

0:36.2

And a Massachusetts teen detained by ICE is released on bond. But let's start with

0:41.4

former President Joe Biden and whether his administration may have helped to keep his alleged

0:45.8

infirmity under wraps. Now, I know what you're probably thinking. It feels extremely strange to

0:52.4

talk about the former president being not all there mentally

0:55.2

when our current president says things like this pretty much every day.

0:59.2

No, but I've uncovered, you know, the human mind.

1:02.7

I was in a debate with the human mind and I didn't think he knew.

1:06.5

That's President Donald Trump with the new chancellor of Germany who's probably, like many world leaders, thinking, what the hell is going on?

1:16.0

And that's the same President Donald Trump who is now demanding his administration investigate the former president's pardons and executive orders.

1:23.5

Because of, among additional reasons, the former president's use of an auto pen to sign documents.

1:29.3

A few notes. Trump has also used an auto pen. You can't undo a pardon. And let's recall that a lot of this is because Trump still believes he won the 2020 election, which he didn't.

1:39.7

I get it. Donald Trump is a generationally weird and bad person who has gotten even more

1:46.1

addled than I thought possible. But if we as Democrats, as liberals, as progressives, as people

1:52.9

who oppose all this shit, want to understand why Donald Trump is president again, we need to

1:59.0

understand what went wrong at the end of Biden's

2:01.4

term in office. Why didn't he stumped for the Inflation Reduction Act in a cross-country tour

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